Central Florida can be deeply proud of its long history of supporting the military. From our early days as home to McCoy Air Force Base, through decades of welcoming recruits to our Naval Training Center, and now, as home to "Team Orlando" — the joint military command headquartered in the Central Florida Research Park — we've nurtured our relationship with the nation's armed forces.

Oscar nominations were announced early Thursday morning. The list for lead actress, unsurprisingly, included these women we've been seeing on red carpets: Golden Globe winner Julianne Moore in “Still Alice,” Rosamund Pike in “Gone Girl,&...

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Hector Rabellino was named sales team manager with the Astor Real Estate Group in Miami.
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Talk-show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres -- who runs one of biggest TV-oriented YouTube channels -- has formed a new digital venture and is launching Ellentube, a site and app that will host exclusive video from her daytime program.
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AOL has unveiled its full slate of 2014 original web series, focusing on "inspiring stories" and comedy, tapping celebs and personalities like James Franco with big digital followings.
All told, AOL has greenlit 16 new and returning original series for 2014-15. The lineup includes one of the first productions from NewForm, the new digital studio formed in partnership with Discovery Communications, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard; a docuseries with celebs paying tribute to a persona hero, exec produced by...

WWE has added its WWE Network to Microsoft's Xbox One videogame console just days before its next pay-per-view, "Extreme Rules," this Sunday.
The company has long said its new digital network would be added to the next-generation console this summer. The WWE Network was already available on the Xbox 360, as well as Sony's PlayStation 3 and PS4. It can also be accessed on all Apple devices, including Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Kindle Fire, Android-powered devices, and WWE's website.
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AOL.com has launched a video module smack in the middle of the page, featuring original content from partners including WWE and HSN, as the web portal seeks to drive higher engagement (and more dollars) from its growing stockpile of vid clips.
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Happy Tax Day, when just getting the forms filled out and mailed is cause for celebration.
One person not celebrating is former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner. She was a regular green-eyeshade employee carrying out thankless tasks until, one day, she caught the attention of House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa of California and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp of Michigan. Since then, her life has been a living hell. Her latest reward for doing her job is a 97-...

"WrestleMania 30" was available in a record 1 million households in the U.S., WWE said Tuesday.
WWE announced that there were 667,000 subscribers to its all-digital streaming WWE Network following the company's biggest pay-per-view event April 6 in New Orleans, while the event also generated nearly 400,000 PPV buys.
That means roughly 1.067 million people in the U.S. had paid to access a "WrestleMania" for the first time domestically, WWE said.
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AOL is now playing in the movie biz.
The Internet media company inked a deal with Miramax to deliver a selection of its full-length films to U.S. users, available to watch for free (with ads) across a range of devices. The pact will lead up to the launch of a new "Movies" section that will be featured across the AOL On Network for video, which until now has comprised only shortform series and clips.
Miramax's 700-plus film library includes such titles as "Pulp Fiction," "Chicago," "Good Will Hunting,"...